Whitmore’s sultry illustrations were usually viewed by the editors as too risqué for the cover. Yet this fashionable teenage girl was judged wholesome enough for public display.

The use of light in this composition draws one’s attention to a keepsake from a special evening. Notice the attention to detail: the mundane items in the refrigerator, the dance card and gloves tossed onto a counter, and a clock reading close to 1:30 a.m. The white of the dress and refrigerator door get a punch of color from a fringed fuchsia shawl.

Maxwell Coburn "Coby" Whitmore, American painter and magazine illustrator born in 1913 in Dayton, Ohio, known for his Saturday Evening Post covers. His work also included advertisements for Gallo Wine and other national brands. He additionally became known as a race-car designer.He graduated from Steele High School and attended the Dayton Art Institute. After moving to Chicago, Illinois, he apprenticed with Haddon Sundblom, illustrator of the "Sundblom Circle", in addition to working for the Chicago Herald Examiner and taking night classes at the Chicago Art Institute. Whitmore moved to New York in 1942 and shortly afterward joined the Charles E. Cooper Studio, on West 57th Street in New York City. here he illustrated for leading magazines of the day and did other commercial art.Whitmore and Jon Whitcomb were two of the top illustrators at Cooper, which in the 1940s and 1950s "monopolized the ladies' magazines like McCall's, Ladies Home Journal, and Good Housekeeping with postwar images of the ideal white American family centered around pretty, middle-class, female consumers living happily in new kitchens, new houses, driving new cars, living with handsome husbands, adorable children, and cute dogs".Aside from women's magazines, Whitmore also illustrated for Esquire, The Saturday Evening Post and Sports Illustrated.Additionally, Whitmore, by then living in Briarcliff Manor, New York, teamed with former World War II fighter pilot John Fitch, an imported car dealer in White Plains, New York, to design and race sports cars in the 1950s and 1960s.He died in 1988.

Starting his career as an apprentice in Lund he experimented with painting portraits from the age of 20. He achieved some successes and in 1839 he had saved up enough money to move to Stockholm. There he took the name Blommér and enrolled in the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. After winning the academy's prize several times he got a stipend in 1847 to travel abroad. He spent time in Paris but later moved to Italy, where he married his wife Edla Gustafva Jansson, also a painter, in November 1852. A few months later he caught a fatal chest disease and died at Rome in February 1953.

Blommér's best known works are based on Norse mythology and folklore. They include Älfdrömmen, Sommarnattsdrömmen, Näcken och Ägirs döttrar, Brage och Iduna, Freja, Loke och Sigyn and Älfvor.

Hugo Joseph Anton Freiherr von Habermann, German painter and draftsman born in 1849. He is sometimes referred to as "the Elder" to distinguish him from his nephew of the same name, who was also a painter.

In 1858 the family moved to Munich, where Habermann attended prestigious schools and had his first lessons in art. In 1868 he began studying law, but he showed little enthusiasm for a legal career.

In 1870, he served as an army officer in the Franco-Prussian War, but despite this distraction managed to produce his first painting on the subject of Ruth and Boaz. The following year, he was appointed to oversee the artists who were painting portraits of the prisoners-of-war in Ingolstadt. It was then that he decided to give up his law studies and become a painter.

When Habermann returned to Munich, he took some preliminary lessons from Hermann Schneider (1847-1918), then entered the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1874, he was accepted for the master class of Karl Theodor von Piloty. He had his first exhibition four years later. He completed his studies in 1879 and opened his own studio.

Together with Bruno Piglhein and Fritz von Uhde, he opened a private art school in 1880. Unfortunately, it attracted few students and was soon closed. That same year, he joined Allotria, an organization for "revolutionary" artists that would be a precursor to the Munich Secession. At the Munich International Art Exposition of 1897, Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, named him a Royal Bavarian Professor (a largely ceremonial position) for his painting Salomé. In his later years he would, in fact, specialize in portraits of women.

Habermann was a co-founder of the Secession and became its second President, after Piglhein. In 1905, he was appointed a full Professor at the Academy and, in 1909, was named a member of the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art. During this period, he discovered the Spanish painter El Greco, which had an immediate and obvious effect on his style. In 1922, he married his long-time model and companion, Olga Hess. Two years later he retired and, the following year, received the Pour le Mérite, Civil Class, from Paul von Hindenburg, the President of Germany.

His health began to deteriorate in 1928 and he moved into his studio, becoming a virtual recluse until his death in 1929.

He came from the Belgian nobility Merode. In the years 1870 to 1876 he was a pupil of the Viennese academy of the fine arts, from 1873 with Anselm Feuerbach. He was a member of the Viennese art society. In 1891 he was a juror at the Berlin Jubilee Exhibition. Together with the landscape painter Adolf Kaufmann, he founded a "school for women" around 1900 in Vienna.

In his works Carl von Merode preferred market scenes and humorous situations from the Viennese national life. He was widely honored and distinguished.

He was the father of the French ballerina and Varieté dancer Cléo de Mérode.

He moved to Naples in 1837 and enrolled at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts, but withdrew after a few months to attend the private school of the painter Giuseppe Bonolis. Contact with his brother Giuseppe, who moved to France in 1844, introduced him to the painting of the Barbizon School. He visited Paris on the occasion of the Universal Exhibition in 1855 and then went on to the Netherlands. Having returned to Paris in 1863, he concentrated on nature studies from life and took part in the Universal Exhibition of 1867, winning a gold medal. The following decade saw further work on the handling of light both in landscapes painted outdoors and in paintings of interiors. He often painted genre scenes of children with animals.

His only painting at the Museum of Capodimonte, the Exodus of Animals from the Ark, is a parade of different species.

An advocate of the need to bring academic teaching up to date, he founded the Naples Società Promotrice di Belle Arti in 1861 together with Domenico Morelli and the Museo Artistico Industriale in 1878, being appointed director two years later. Filippo Palizzi was named commendatore of the Order of the Crown of Italy and of the Austrian Order of Franz Joseph, and honorary Associate of numerous Academies. He died in Naples in 1899.

Micaela Eleutheriade, one of the great Romanian painters and direct descendants, through his mother, from the family of the painter Gheorghe Tattarescu.

She was born in Bucharest in 1900. School and Gymnasium in Bucharest. Between 1918 - 1924, she studied at the School of Fine Arts with professors of great artists of the time Cecilia Cuţescu-Storck, Dimitrie Mirea and Ipolit Strâmbu. Her debut at the Salon des Independants in Paris and at the "Spring Salon" in Bucharest was in 1926. In 1931 she was awarded at the Official Salon in Bucharest. In 1936 she held a personal painting exhibition at the Dalles Hall. By 1942 she participates in several group exhibitions at the House of Art Gallery. 1959 - Opens a retrospective at the Exhibition Pavilions in Herastrau Park. 1965 - Participates in the annual graphics exhibition in the Simu Hall in Bucharest.

"With an ever-young expansiveness and exuberance, thinking at the same time on the right measure, the perfect balance, Micaela Eleutheriade is fully in line with Romanian art. A tradition that he naturally absorbs, through temperament, by belonging to a spirit that has emerged on these lands, and has always been spoken through works that synthesize the prospect of great beauty, always simple and clear." Dan Grigorescu

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